Aspen’s toes hugged bark, her fingers gripping tree limbs. The window was cold and breezy. She was 210 ft in the air. She was surrounded by plenty of trees, Aspens eyes were the color of honey and they slowly looked around surveying her surroundings. She could see everything from up here.

A knife hits the tree 2 inches away from her face. She bolts branch from one to the next the leaves falling with every step. Another knife flys by her but it doesn’t get so close this time.

She starts sprinting tree to tree, grasping for air with every two steps.

She stops. The sunlight shining threw leaves makes her somehow peaceful.

She looks behind she stops the knife in midair from hitting her dead between the eyes, it hovers and spins before her. She grabs it.

Eden is its carving on a wooden handle.

“Your using your favorite?” Aspen yells.

Eden’s slender body moves out from a huge tree. Her bare feet walks across tree limbs. Luckily these tree’s were so big that it could 50 people on its limbs without a problem.

“Yeah this time, I am." aspen throws as hard as she can and Eden starts the game all over again. This was something they did every Wednesday. It was like a game of tag and hide and seek with knifes. It helped them to feel better bout walking alone at night. Or direct messages to all the mr. rights nows that never got past the first paragraphs of the pointless conversations that started with my favorite book.. and there was no cure for the relentless hate mail, they received.

But anger was fuel and they would not be subjected to feeling helpless all the time.

They did this for five hours before taking a seat on the forest floor and sat crisscross applesauce from each other.

“ aspen I think I know how I can help you” Eden told her.

“ if it’s anything like Joseph’s help I don’t want it” aspen said and rolled her eyes.

“No no no. I can get you that spell I think. Not the resurrection one but the one where you go to the mirror world. Where you can get your ingredients.” Eden said before downing a whole water bottle.

“ are you sure I don’t want you to risk your life for me” aspen said with a sad look on her face

“Only if I get caught. Joseph did the same thing to me last year and I got put in law and Ethics to. Learned how to get around everything, like a Ninja” Eden said then giggled.

“Why is Joseph like that? Can’t he just leave well enough alone?” Aspen said while letting out a big sigh and started laying down on the grass looking up at the tree limbs interwoven with each-other.

“His cousin died, from breaking the law. He watched him die on tv and he hasn’t been the same since.” Eden said softly.

Aspen’s right eye let out one single tear.

*Oh I wish I hadn’t of said all those things, I wish I hadn’t told him I didn’t care bout him.

How awful of me*

aspen thought to herself.

“There’s thing called grapes of paradise, if you eat them you can’t be detected. But you can only get them from a certain group of witch and honestly I’m not sure I can trust you with the kind of information that groups holds, So I’ll get the spell for you.” Eden said the cut her eyes at aspen.

She called her broom and it came swiftly from a mile outside of the forest and into Eden’s hands.

And got on her broom and fell into the sky, leaving aspen on the forest floor alone with her thoughts.